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Section: Columns

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Knitting with Coalsmoke – John Bagnall Fondly Dissects the Eccentricities of British Life in this Collection of Ten Years of His Comic Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2014

Knitting with Coalsmoke collects a selection of the “pleasantly musty” strips of John Bagnall – small press veteran of the heady 1980s days of Escape and Fast Fiction – and…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… ‘My So-Called Secret Identity’ with Will Brooker

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 26, 2014

The issue of sexism and a lack of realistic female role models in super-hero comics is one that has plagued the industry for years. Will Brooker – Professor in Film…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Creative Powerhouse Lewis Trondheim Tackles Mind-Reading in a Surprising Way and with Hilarious Results in Omni-visibilis

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 24, 2014

One of the most recurrent pre-adolescents fantasies must be having the ability to read minds. (Another one is probably X-ray vision, but for an entirely different reason…) French creator Lewis Trondheim…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… First World War Anthology ‘To Arms!’ with Matt Duncan and Karim Iskander Flint

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 24, 2014

Evolving from the monthly Process Comics group at London’s Gosh! Comics, the First World War anthology To Arms! brings together a number of established players on the self-publishing scene – including Mike…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Between the Billboards #5-6 – Owen D. Pomery’s Tale of Solitude and Architecture Reaches a Dramatic End

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 23, 2014

Between the Billboards is a comic with something of a ‘Small Pressganged’ pedigree. I reviewed the first four issues here at Broken Frontier last year and included it in my annual round-up…

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Nominations for 2014 Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance Awards Announced – ‘Small Pressganged’ Favourites Dominate Shortlist!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 19, 2014

The nominations for the fourth Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance (SICBA) Awards have been released this week, celebrating excellent work from some fine creators north of the border. Public voting for…

Gauguin (Maximilien Le Roy and Christophe Gaultier)

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Maximilien Le Roy’s Biography of Paul Gauguin Is a Refreshing and Controversial Look at a Passionate Artist in His Final Days

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 17, 2014

Sick and tired of the European art world’s conservative outlook on his paintings, Paul Gauguin moved to French Polynesia in the late 1800s in search of a second lease of…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Single Black Glove – Kate Hazell’s Imaginatively Witty Minicomic is an ELCAF Must-Buy!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2014

A solitary discarded glove is a melancholy sight as it poignantly lies forever separated from the defining duality of its functional life partner. But that same sense of sadness we…

Judge Dredd Complete Case Files #7

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Judge Dredd Hits the US Where it Hurts in Case Files #7, Featuring Dinosaurs, Fatties, Snorks and Werewolves

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 10, 2014

In the ongoing epic of the life of Dredd, Case Files #7 is a quiet but remarkably solid collection that switches from straight action to smart satire at the snap of…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Modern Times

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2014

Billing itself as the UK’s “first graphic newspaper since the Titanic sank” Modern Times is an intriguing new project overseen by a three-woman team of Royal College of Art students….

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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French Comics Genius Baru Delivers a Stunningly Violent and Amoral Adaptation of Canicule, Vautrin’s Crime Novel

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 3, 2014

Acclaimed for his focus on the working classes, comic creator Baru has created such blue-collar masterpieces as L’autoroute du soleil and Bonne Année. However, he remains criminally below the radar in the Anglophone…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… ‘And then Emily Was Gone’ with John Lees and Iain Laurie

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 2, 2014

Self-publishing as a potential route to both greater recognition and professional exposure is something I have firmly advocated in this column over the last few years. John Lees and Iain…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Maleficium – Exclusive Preview Pages as EdieOP Talks About Her New Project from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2014

The philosophy behind ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier has always been not just to provide an outlet for small press coverage in a comics media dominated by “mainstream” stories but…

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Webcomics Round-Up, May 2014 – Mike Medaglia’s ‘Last Days of Nobodies’ Launches, plus Katriona Chapman and Francesca Cassavetti

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2014

Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? Here’s our monthly spotlight on accessible online work covering creators who have appeared in ‘Small Pressganged’ in the past at Broken…

The Last Tiger on Earth (Michaël Olbrechts; De allerlaatste tijger)

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The Last Tiger On Earth, from Newcomer Michaël Olbrechts, Is a Touching Remembrance of a Colonial Past

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 27, 2014

Ever since the boom in popularity of the graphic novel, it seems to be a given that artists are also excellent writers, churning out literary stories while putting down depictions…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Memphis, Tennessee is Clouded in Mystery in Rodolphe and Marchal’s Latest Collaboration

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 20, 2014

Steel mils and classic cars: what could be more American than those icons? How about a good ol’ dose of paranoia and mystery? French creators Rodolphe & Bertrand Marchal’s third…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Exiles of Metrodome – Craig Collins and Company Return to Small Press Splatterfest with a Multi-Talent Sketchjam

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2014

In August of last year I reviewed the Battle Royale/The Hunger Games/Avengers Arena satire Metrodome from the team of Craig Collins and Iain Laurie in this column here. The ghoulish imaginations…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Cafe Suada Cups 3 and 4 – The Unadulterated Fun of Jade Sarson’s Manga-Influenced Ensemble Webcomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2014

Jade Sarson’s webcomic Cafe Suada – an offbeat, manga-influenced romantic comedy charting the rivalry between Piyo Piyo tea shop manageress Geraldine Grey and Ewan from the next door Dark Moon…

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